GIGO

Diogenes would not carry a lantern today, but a machete or an AK-47.

Electorate now educated by
and through the auspices of internet,
decisions carrying a world of weight
are swayed by Facebook posts.  Small wonder why
the grins and gigged brains voted into power
don't need to think about vox populi;
anonymous vox dei spins the lies
into their pseudo-truth six times an hour.
What passes now for discourse or debate
are statuses, conflicting rumors checked
unscrupulously for what shreds of fact
they may contain. God help the candidate
who actually has a plan to put in play;
the way that can be spoken's not the way.

Reviews

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... brilliantly said, monsieur joel... the absence of depth is astounding... i recently witnessed what was described to me as a "twitter war"... and it was so frivolous and so superficial... that i nearly thought that haikus and senryus will be replaced by "tweets"... mastery in brevity is one thing... and utter frivolity is quite another... facts take a beating... almost always...

[Joel M Frye]

There is a great deal of thought that goes into brevity done well...unfortunately, a great deal of thought goes into most sound bites, too. Spin doctors are poets too, in their own deviant ways.

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... uhm... well... i don't usually say this... but the ones i read were rather infradig... even compared to me... which is a rather sorry state of affairs... for them... :P